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Stefan Westerfeld | 7 Apr 2007 16:05
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Re: Think about piano

   Hi!

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:35:20PM +0100, Hanno wrote:
> When I was at my old music teacher I investigated some effects of a piano with 
> him and I want to tell you some interesting features that are used in some 
> common piano-pieces. 
> 
> When you press down a piano-key with very low velocity you can hear no sound. 
> But the damper of the strings are released, so the strings for those keys are 
> ready for swinging. 
> 
> Then you press a key some octaves lower than the keys you hold and release 
> that. The tone stops - but the still hold down keys on high pitch swing. You 
> can hear them like they have been played and hold down. The swing on 
> resonance. 
> 
> This effect is simulated by no piano-simulator yet. And its the point all 
> piano-players make jokes about piano-synths: "They never can do this! Ha!" 
> Just like my teacher.
> 
> Would be nice if we could do this. How? Any ideas?

If I understood the article I read about it right, the proprietary

  http://www.pianoteq.com

Piano (available as VST) does just this. So if you want it proprietary,
a VST loader for BEAST would be sufficient.

If you want a free reimplementation, I think the way to get there is
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Stefan Westerfeld | 14 Apr 2007 00:48
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Tentative 0.7.2 Release Plan

   Hi!

Finally the next release is coming closer. This means that in terms of
what major changes shall be there, here is what is planned:

* Include sample based Drum Kits:

We've built the necessary stuff for packaging sample based drum kits
(where each midi note can be a different sample being replayed at a
different volume) now. The plan right now is to have at least two or
three prepackaged drumkits in the release, with one that should match
the general midi layout as close as possible.

* Include bsewavetool:

Bsewavetool is a command line program which can be used to create
multisamples in the bsewave format. Its the program we'll use to package
the drumkits. For the first time, 0.7.2 will provide this tool to end
users, so they can easily build their own multisamples.

Besides these changes, beast needs

* Bugfixing: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query=product:beast

* New Demos: Especially due to the new ability of using sample based
drums (which should sound quite different than the synthetic drums we
used so far), new demo songs or loops illustrating the possibilities
would be interesting.

* New Instruments/Effects: We always need instruments/effects to ship
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Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle | 25 Apr 2007 22:00
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Midi hardware

Alright, I searched but didn't find anything...

Could you wise men point me to the best choice for
an all in one usb midi mic guitar controller which
is beast compatible?

Thank you very much.
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Tim Janik | 27 Apr 2007 21:57
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Re: Midi hardware

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle wrote:

> Alright, I searched but didn't find anything...
>
> Could you wise men point me to the best choice for
> an all in one usb midi mic guitar controller which
> is beast compatible?

not sure what a midi-mic-guitar controller would do,
guitars and mics cannot be connected to MIDI afaik.
in any case, you don't need MIDI hardware to be sepcifically
taylored to beast, beast can use all MIDI devices that
have ALSA (or OSS) kernerl driver support.
you can find a list of supported ALSA devices, including
MIDI devices here:
   http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

many, but not all USB midi devices work with ALSA. i recently
got an PCR-M1 keyboard and a generic usb<->midi converter:
   http://www.roland.com/products/en/PCR-M1/index.html
   http://www.roland.com/products/en/UM-3EX/index.html
both work well with ALSA.

the PCR is just a bit cumbersome to use with beast at the moment
because it sends events only on the second subchannel, which means
i have to start beast like this:
   $ beast -m alsa=hw:1,0,1

FYI, here's the relevant MIDI device listing from beast, which
you should get once you have successfully setup a MIDI device
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Tim Janik | 28 Apr 2007 21:07
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Re: Midi hardware

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle wrote:

> What about the M-Audio Ozone?
> http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MAudioOzone-main.html
>

i have no idea, you could try asking the alsa people though
(on the ALSA project mailing list or the #alsa irc channel
on freenode).

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ciaoTJ
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jakob.keres | 27 Apr 2007 11:57
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Re: Midi hardware

Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle schrieb:
> Alright, I searched but didn't find anything...
> 
> Could you wise men point me to the best choice for
> an all in one usb midi mic guitar controller which
> is beast compatible?

Hi,

I use a Tascam US 122 (not 122L) which works nicely with Linux (support has to be compiled in the kernel). But
I'm not shure if it's still produced. And I also don't know what's about the successor.
Beast compatible? It is Alsa/Jack compatible, is this what you mean?

Regards, Jakob
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Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle | 28 Apr 2007 20:47
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Re: Midi hardware

What about the M-Audio Ozone?
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MAudioOzone-main.html

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